Got a late start today on by about 12:30. Was becoming very discouraged for the first 5ish hours only boated 1 legal walleye and about 5 northern. Was getting ready to leave decided to try 1 more spot and a switch flipped about 20 walleye (kept 3) in 2 hours and about 10 crappie (kept 2) crappie are all full of eggs so threw them back. All but two walleye taken on a slip bobber in ONLY 5 FEET of water at 73.6 degrees. they are in shallow weeds and were very color specific on the 1/32 oz jig below my bobber. Not going to tell you the color cuz that would take the fun out of it.

May 20th and 21st were almost the exact same picking up very few walleyes. all were taken on jig and minnow. All in less than 15 fow in my experience. marking some sporadically but nothing consistent. If your in the mood for small pike though ur in luck couldnt keep them off the hook.!

The Walleye's have moved off the shoreline but are scattered everywhere. It's really hard to establish a pattern yet so just keep moving. Catching one here and one there. Had six keeper's today with over 20 northerns. Kept a few of them also.

Sunday thru Wednesday - jig and minnow got a lot of smaller fish. Caught larger fish in 2-6 FOW. Caught fish as deep as 21 ft.. High pressure, sun and too little wind did not help. Never moved a crappie or perch.

Sound advice, Ben. We were back out today for a couple hours and the water temps in the 4-6 feet of water range were around 65* !! Hard to believe that there was ice just over 10 days ago.

Blustery conditions, fished shallow first, moved off first break and found fish. 8-12 feet deep along wind blown shorelines is where we found the walleyes, caught a handful although only had two that were keeper size and we tossed them back. Boy was after pike and we found a half dozen with bright colored spinners, not very big at all but sure made him smile.

Walleye bite was pretty light and short, with several missed bites on jigs.

Walleyes were willing biters on three outings last week and again last night. The super shallow bite has tapered a bit. Early last week they were up as shallow as possible as long as the water was broken with some sort of breeze. When it layed down flat they were harder to get, but only had to try a couple feet deeper. Jigs. Crankbaits. Minnow w/ plain hook and splitshot all worked equally well. Last night's bite was substantially more slow, but still plenty of fish to be found on the first break, 4-8 FOW. Weedless jigs and tuffies, aggressively jump the jig and keep contact with it, finger on the line as it drops back to the bottom, with braided line and fluorocarbon leader you'll feel the "pop" through the somewhat slack line as the fish eats it on the drop, drop rod tip, reel up slack and set the hook, keep moving along the shorelines and you'll find them, at least for now. Fishing faster and moving along seems to get the bigger bites. Slowing down and slowly dragging jigs through an area is certainly more thorough, but produced many more smaller males than larger fish. A few males still milking, released all females on all outings, catching two 18" full of eggs, 2 around 21" in the slot and one over that were all full of eggs and all released. It's a tough thing to explain to a kid why we keep the 16" but not the 21". He got the largest two released fish last week on his own crankbait that he picked out, and then lost it to a pike. Pike starting to be more prevalent in same areas and loosing lots of jigs to them as well.

Did not go through the channel near the bog on the way up to Cedar Falls, but it appears to be back to the east side.

Spent Saturday and Sunday targeting Pike for some fun action fishing. We were not disappointed and we found the pattern rather quickly. 10 hours between the 2 days we caught and released 35 Pike between 16"- 26" inches.(Kept 2 for dinner)Had double that number in follows to the boat and caught and released 3 LM with the largest being 18.5" All fishing was done on the north end, north of campsite 14. The majority of the fish were caught on Sun exposed north shorelines with flooded grass points or timber in water less than 4 feet deep. Water temps were reaching 64 degrees in some of the backwater bays. All fish were caught on Mepps #5 Nickel Blades with bright colored skirts. We tried other mepps color combos with zero success. Get out and fish!